Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets

This is a press release from a marine research organization, so the main implication here isn't that they're doing it because it's in any way relevant to humans. They're doing it because it's a cool thing for a marine research organization to research.

Yes, it's probably not gonna help humans, unless some of your friends are gelatinous blobs with no circulatory or nervous system and with a lifespan measured in months.

> The medusa, the free-swimming form most people picture when they hear the term jellyfish, is only one stage of the animal’s life cycle.

> We tend to think of the flower—or the jellyfish—as the organism, but these are actually reproductive units.

I'll never look at jellyfish the same.

The title seems like clickbait for a super medical cream.

Don't they have the advantage of having very simple tissue?

At first glance I imagined this was a magic way to heal a wound by rubbing a jellyfish on it. Skin irritation be damned, this is gonna save lives.

But no. No such joy.

how does this work, when they just sting

TL/DR: be made of jelly